title: Quality of life in thyroid eye disease: impact of quality of care.
abstract: Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a chronic debilitating condition causing physical discomfort, facial disfigurement and impaired visual function. The physical consequences of TED could have a negative and lasting impact on patients' employment, hobbies and psychosocial function. In this review, we assess the evidence of the impact of TED on patients' quality of life (QOL) and also explore the effects of suboptimal quality of care on QOL of patients with this disease. It is hoped that recent initiatives, including the Amsterdam declaration, to raise the quality of care for patients with TED will help to improve their QOL.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology Ophthalmology, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter EX2 5DW, UK.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Estcourt
authors.forename: Anthony G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.forename: Bijay
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vaidya
mesh_terms: D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D049970:Graves Ophthalmopathy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy